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Scientists Identity Genetic Risk Factor for Head and Neck Cancer

...s chances of getting head and neck cancer. Smoking damages DNA and is known to be a major cause of this disease, which can affect the throat, mouth and larynx. The researchers focused on a DNA repair enzyme called OGG1, for which they had previously developed a blood test to measure activity levels. By co...

Cochlear Implants in Both Ears Enables Better Hearing

...gery can cost $50,000. The device also permanently damages the cochlea, which might prevent recipients from taking advantage of potentially superior treatments for deafness down the road. Patients never received more than one implant until about ten years ago. Then, doctors began to fit people with two, ho...

Specially Treated Prawns for Seafood Allergy Sufferers

...2746). Zhenxing’s team suggests that irradiation damages the proteins, revealing hidden reactive amino acid residues. Subsequent heating then destroys the exposed residues. 'Radiation and heat seems to be a promising method for reducing the immunoreactivity' say the researchers. Samuel Lehrer of Tulane U...

Study Uncovers Clues for Why Graves’ Disease Attacks the Eye

...eepen understanding of how the autoimmune disorder damages the body and offer a new target for treating the disfiguring disease. Earlier research found that GD patients’ immune systems produce an antibody that other people do not. Not recognizing the patient’s thyroid as “self,” the antibody mistakenly mou...

Routine Oxygen Administration in Heart Attack Victims, Challenged

... pumping of oxygen actually reduces blood flow and damages the heart. He supports his statements with actually, lack of supporting evidence, for the practice. Beasely says that the only controlled trial with oxygen therapy was in 1976, and it was recorded that the patient ended up in a worsened state th...

Incidence of Fatty Liver Disease High Among Obese Children

... Fatty Liver Disease so we can intervene before it damages the liver.' A simple blood test to determine if liver enzyme levels are elevated alerts pediatricians that the child needs to be evaluated for Fatty Liver Disease. Approximately a third of children and teens in the United States are overweight an...

Researchers Discover Proteins That Protect Against Skin Cancer

...let radiation. Ultraviolet radiation in sunlight damages the DNA in skin cells. If left unrepaired by the cell, this damage can turn into mutations that lead to cancer. Before cells divide, they must replicate, or copy, their DNA to form new daughter cells. If damage in the DNA is discovered even after the...

Inhibiting Blood to Save the Brain

...brain called microglia, causing inflammation which damages myelin. The scientists sought to design a therapeutic strategy that would block the damaging effects of fibrinogen without affecting its beneficial blood coagulation. Studying a mouse model, the researchers identified a specific receptor called Mac...

Study Finds the Effect of Alcohol and Aspirin in TBI Patients

...spirin consumption. When used in excess, alcohol damages brain structure and function. Besides the acute effects of alcohol consumption on the neurological function of the brain, there are physical changes that may result from moderate to heavy drinking of long duration. One concern is brain atrophy, which...

Autoimmune Diseases can Be Prevented by Green Tea

...e I diabetes and primary Sjogren's syndrome, which damages the glands that produce tears and saliva. They found significantly less salivary gland damage in a group treated with green tea extract, suggesting a reduction of the Sjogren's symptom commonly referred to as dry mouth. Dry mouth can also be caused...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...ng-term effect is smoking. "Everyone knows that it damages your health. But the best lesson would be if one got ill immediately after smoking every cigarette." Spada called for a brainstorming of new ideas about how to bring the message of collective change into daily life. Instead of relying on the moment...

Own Up and Pay Up, Nigerian Party Tells Pfizer

...lmost seven billion dollars (5.2 billion euros) in damages from Pfizer over the drug tests. It says the children suffered various degrees of adverse effects ranging from deafness to muteness, paralysis, brain damage, loss of sight, slurred speech and death. Hearings in the case are due to restart on June 26....

US Court Allows Teva to Deliver Disputed Drug: Novartis

... the US in May 2007, risks potentially significant damages if Novartis prevails in patent litigation," it added. Lotrel, which is sold only in the US, combines in a single capsule two active ingredients that individually no longer have US patent protection, Novartis said. The drug had annual sales of 1.35 ...

A Milky Alternative to Alzheimer Drug

...dicine seems to feed the brain cell starved by the damages of the Alzheimer disease . It is one among the four experimental drugs awaiting large scale testing against the brain destroying disease. The milkshake drug, called Ketasyn, is a new approach to treating dementia. It centers on latest research sugg...

SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

... a ministry official, told AFP. Excessive drinking damages individuals and society in various ways, including serious illnesses, a rise in crime and reduced work efficiency, he said. The ministry estimated the social and economic costs of alcohol consumption at 20.1 trillion won (21.59 billion dollars) in ...

Green Tea may Protect the Bladder from Becoming Inflamed

...ll lines from exposure to hydrogen peroxide, which damages or kills cells. The concentrations of EGCG and ECG used in the study were at levels that may be achieved through dietary intake....

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

...ack loop like this in a GDEPT therapy." The drug damages DNA inside the cancer cells to the point where the cells stop functioning. They have no choice but to shut down and die. Another benefit of the therapy is that it doesnt just kill only the cancer cells infected by the virus. "We also see a signif...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

... (VOC) for perfumes in the product which can cause damages to practically every organ in the body. Children and women have been found to be particularly vulnerable to these toxics. We have found that besides the presence of a vast range of toxic chemicals in their consumer products, HLL is perhaps the sing...

US Professors Develop Fusion Protein to Fight Cancer

... lung, prostate and pancreatic cancers without the damages that are caused by chemo and radiotherapy. A fusion protein is the product of joining two genes or two proteins or peptides together. Fusion proteins can happen naturally or it can be created artificially in a laboratory for research purposes. T...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...ng-term effect is smoking. "Everyone knows that it damages your health. But the best lesson would be if one got ill immediately after smoking every cigarette." Spada called for a brainstorming of new ideas about how to bring the message of collective change into daily life. Instead of relying on the moment...

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